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Fabulous Risk:
Danger and Performance in Circus and Sideshow

Conference Program

DAY 2 – SATURDAY 2ND DECEMBER 2006

9:30–11:00

THE BIG TOP, Stuart Park
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
A/Professor Richard Broome: “Not Strictly Business:
The Place of Freaks within the Showground World.”
Chair: Scott Maidment (Strut n Fret)
Performance: Trent Baumann

11:00–11:30

Coffee Carts/Big Top

11:30–1:00

General Sessions

1A NOVOTEL (no tech)

1B NOVOTEL (tech)

1C BIG TOP (tech)

Circus & the Creative Arts

Chair: TBA

Paul Sharrad: Man or Mouse? Circus in Peter Carey and Salmon Rushdie

Anne Collett: Circus in Dickens

Mark Douglass: Juggling, Music & Maths.

Wendy Suiter: Making Music from Scratch(es).

Who are we and where do we come from?

Chair: Georgine Clarsen

Rosemary Farrell: Unmasking Chinese Circus Skills in Traditional Australian Circus.

Simone O’Brien: Large Egos & Low Self-Esteem—the role of narcissism and sado-masochism in the circus arts

Jane Mullet: Acts of Conscience: Political Comment and Alternative Circus

1:00–2:00

LUNCH

2:00-3:30

BIG TOP:
YOUTH CIRCUS
Chair: Paul Woodhead
Panel:
Bridgette Van Leuven & Kim Spinks: Arts NSW — Funding
Jane Davis: Half High Circus — Youth & Risk
Kristy Seymour: Flipside Circus — Career Paths

3:30–4:00

Coffee Carts/Big Top

4.00-5.30

General Sessions

2A NOVOTEL (no tech)

2B NOVOTEL (tech)

2C BIG TOP (tech)

Launch and Trial of the ACAPTA Code of Practice

Chair: Debra Batton
(ACAPTA)

Safety committee:
Scott Grayland
Joey Ruigrok
Kate Reid

Fluid Identities: Burlesque, Drag and Strip

Chair: Annabelle Lines

Annie Werner: The Spectacle of the Self-Made Freak

Cath Davies:Erotic and Grotesque Bodies in the Circus/Sideshow.

Elizabeth Stephens: Queering the Female Body in Circus and Sideshow.

Imogen Kelly: Performance

Sideshow & Street:
Risking the Edge

Chair: Kim Kaos

Panel:
Trent Bauman
Shep Huntley
Lilli Blue
Tamara Campbell

5:30–6:30

BREAK

6:00-7.30 ACAPTA committee meeting (over dinner) to join gallery later

7:00–9:00

WOLLONGONG CITY GALLERY
EXHIBITION & PERFORMANCE

Curated by Annie Werner and Heidi Hillier

Please note that this is a draft program and is subject to change

Faculty of Arts
University of Wollongong
Wollongong NSW 2522 Australia
Telephone +61 2 4221 3555

Fabulous Risk: Danger and Performance in Circus and Sideshow

Conference Program

Fabulous Risk:
Danger and Performance in Circus and Sideshow